Reliance Building, 32 North State Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Summary
Significance: An important example of the early Chicago School, it anticipates future developments in skyscraper design. Terra cotta was employed for exterior surfacing for the first time in this building. The Commission on Chicago Architectural Landmarks has cited it: "In recognition of the early and complete expression, through slender piers, small spandrels, and the skillfully restrained use of terra cotta with large areas of glass, of the structural cage of steel that alone supports such buildings."
Survey number: HABS IL-1029
Building/structure dates: ca. 1894 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000237
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Burnham & Root
Atwood, Charles B
Location
chicago, 41.88303, -87.62823
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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